The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-12-29
Only His Way!
Wanted to Have Little Fun at
the Expense of the Old
Woman

| IIuSu " DiICh llHCo LII OlhSiihooi
His present address is the Work
house. People generally are not in
terested in Hugh, only in so far as hi
conduct has lesson in it. Hugh got
on little tear one day last week, anc
when his kind-hearted old mother un.
dertook to quiet him, he slammed E
pail Of boiling water at her. His ner.
vousness saved the old woman, but
his sister-in-law, who was standing
near, received the fluid full in the face
destroying the sight Of one eye, and
almost putting out the other. All
because Hugh, in the lordly exercise
of his personal liberty, got drunk!
Now the experience Of this Cincin-
NATHAN is the experience Of thousands
Of men all over the country, men who,
while possessing most excellent traits
Of character when sober, are willing
to throw away every vestige Of man.
hood, and every claim to respect from
their fellow men, in order to-what
Enjoy themselves? Is it any enjoy
ment to lie out in the freezing cold,
or go about with a raging headache,
or have the nervous system racked and
shattered so that the man is rendered
almost helpless? Yet men will drink
for the alleged enjoyment there is in
it!
Pleasure is not to be found in a
practice that destroys home and
makes tender-hearted man a mur-
derer. Do you claim that the two
conditions are antagonistic-that a
tender-hearted man cannot become a
murderer? Then we disagree with
you, dear friends. The miserable stuff
sold daily in large quantities in this
State, i'll this county, in this town,
will turn the most tender-hearted and
even-tempered man in existence into
horrid, raving. murderous maniac, if
he permits it to go into his system.
It will make the son assault the
mother that bore him; it will make
the mother murder the child that is
nursing at her breast; it will create
enmity between father and son, and
brother and sister; it will nullify the
marriage VOW, and mock the tenderest
throbs of the human heart; it will de-
stroy the family altar and silence the
voice Of prayer; it will supplant love
with passion, and turn kindly i'm
pulse to the bitterest hatred; it will
obliterate from the moral sky the last
faint sign of hope, and elothe the
armament with the gloom Of despair;
it will bid its victim look toward
Heaven, to see but yawning, gloomy
chasm beyond which he can scarcely
hope to go; it laughs at the futility
of mothers prayer, and blasts the
growth Of a fathers pride; it rises,
like the mighty curse that it is, to
crush the light and joy of human
affairs, and make the earth living
hell. Knowing these things,
men, Intelligent, upright men, will
deliberately go into places of tempta-
tion, and place themselves within the
clutches Of this awful vice. 1t is one
of the things that are past finding
out. One can readily understand why
the good Lord sent the frogs, and the
flies, and the murrain, and the dark
ness, into Egypt. Such infections
had the effect of compelling Pharaoh
to listen to reason, for time at,least.
But one can scarcely understand the
motive which prompts men to tolerate
this greater curse than Egypt ever
dreamed of, in the magnitude of its
effects.